The Alameda Corridor is a 20 mile (32 km) freight rail "expressway" directly connecting the national rail system near downtown Los Angeles, California to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, running parallel to Alameda Street. The project is notable for its "Mid-Corridor Trench", a below-ground, double-tracked rail line that is 10 miles (16 km) long, 30 feet (10 m) deep and 50 feet wide (15 m), shared by both the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway and Union Pacific Railroad via trackage rights. The Alameda Corridor allows trains to bypass 90 miles (145 km) of early 20th century branch lines and the Santa Fe's historic Harbor Subdivision along a high-speed grade-separated corridor (mainly built on the alignment of a former UP line), avoiding more than 200 at-grade railroad crossings where cars and trucks previously had to wait for long freight trains to slowly pass. Many of those same rail lines were inadequately protected with little more than Magnetic Flagman crossing signals. One important use of the corridor is to take cargo containers to the ports. An expressway is a divided highway, usually 4 lanes or wider in size, where direct access to adjacent properties has been eliminated. ... The Downtown Los Angeles skyline as seen from Hollywood. ... The Port of Los Angeles is located on San Pedro Bay in the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles, approximately 20 miles (30 km) south of downtown. ... The Port of Long Beach is the second busiest seaport in the United States and the tenth busiest port in the world. ... An eastbound BNSF Railway train passes some maintenance of way equipment in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, August 8, 2004. ... The Union Pacific Railroad (NYSE: UNP) is the largest railroad in the United States. ... A union station or union terminal is a train station where tracks and facilities are shared by two or more railway companies, allowing passengers to connect conveniently between them. ... The BNSF Harbor Subdivision is a historic single-track main line of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe which stretches 26 miles/42km between the rail yards of downtown Los Angeles and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach across southwestern Los Angeles County. ...
The line went into operation April 15, 2002 and has handled an average of 35 train movements per day. April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Alameda Street Widening - this road parallel to the railroad corridor will be be "widened from four to six lanes with new left-turn pockets." Caltrans does not currently plan to take this street into the state highway system, even though a freeway is still proposed for the Alameda Street corridor.
An extension to the AlamedaCorridor is Corridor 34, AlamedaCorridor East/Southwest Passage, from East Los Angeles (which is the northern terminus of AlamedaCorridor) through Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, and Riverside Counties, to termini at Barstow in San Bernardino County and Coachella in Riverside County.
First, the corridor is able to handle 200 million tons of cargo, which is double the amount fed through the AlamedaCorridor prior to the reconstruction activities.
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